Transportation and economic development challenges/ edited by Kenneth Button, Aura Reggiani.

"This collection of papers stems from a meeting of NECTAR (Network on European Communications and Transport Activities Research) held in Arlington, Virginia in the summer of 2009 ... This collection of papers represents revised contributions to that meeting which focus on the broad theme of transportation and development"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Kenneth Button and Aura Reggiani -- The relationship between megaregions and megapolitans: transportation planning for the two scales / Jason S. Myers and Anne Dunning -- The global economic crisis, investment in transport infrastructure, and economic development / Andrew R. Goetz -- Distance in the existence of political pathologies : rationalized transport policies and trade / Nihan Akyelken -- Access to rail in urban areas : examination of the number of stations / Moshe Givoni and Piet Rietveld -- Parcel distribution networks for online shopping business / Hyunwoo Lim and Narushige Shiode -- Discussion of the necessity of accessiblity standards : the German "Guidelines for integrated network design" (RIN) / Regine Gerike, Andreas Rau and Jürgen Gerlach -- Transportation planning of the future : mitigating GHGs in the US through green litigation / Deb Niemeier, Erica Jones and Roger Cheng -- Matching words and deeds? : how transit-oriented are the Bloomberg-era rezonings in New York City? / Simon McDonnell, Josiah Madar and Vicki Been -- Policymaking on waterside industrial sites : an empirical study for Flanders / Tom Pauwels ... [et al.].